Burning 0.7 miles south-west of Carson and 2.2 miles east of West Carson, since Saturday 22 August.
The fire sits 373 miles from Sacramento.
—
acreage not yet reported
6
days burning so far
—
no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The picture as of 6:56am today
The Lac-299553 Fire is still listed as active, and has not been looked at lately. Nothing has given off fresh heat for 172 hours.
No fresh look at this fire for 172 hours. Everything on the map below was seen before then.
Heat in the last dayHigher ground pale, valleys darkWhere another fire is recorded
172hours
since anything was last seen giving off heat — about 3:15am on Saturday, local time.
56% less
energy in the last 0.5 hours of the record
than in the 0.5 before them — the fire was
cooler when it was last seen.
1.3miles
is how close the heat has come to Carson at any point in the record. In the last day the nearest heat has been None miles from it, and the closest this fire has come to West Carson is 2.7 miles, None in the last day.
1.0miles
is the furthest any heat has been seen from the point on the
official record — the width of the ground involved so far.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-297151 Fire started on Friday 21 August, 2.0 miles north-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299374 Fire started 165 minutes before this one, 1.7 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-299989 Fire started 635 minutes after this one, 0.0 miles north, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-301637 Fire started on Monday 24 August, 1.2 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302672 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 2.9 miles south-west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-302955 Fire started on Tuesday 25 August, 3.7 miles north-east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground five times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 14 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
Where the heat is
No cluster large enough to call a separate front. The heat is in one piece.
Conditions measured 17.6 miles from the fire: 71°F, air at 90% humidity, a 4 mph wind out of the south-east.
How it got here
One day of record on a day-8 fire
The record here begins at 2:20am on 22 Aug and runs to 3:15am on 22 Aug — 1 hours, 2 readings of heat. The fire is on day 8, so the first 7 days are missing: nothing showed up from above until the fire was large enough and the sky over it clear enough for it to be seen. There is no long arc to draw yet. What follows is what has actually happened.
The whole record, 8 frames at
1 hour
a frame. The bar along the bottom is energy released; the moving line is the clock.
Hour by hour local time
Sat 2:00amSat 3:00am
Each bar is one hour of local time, sized by how much energy the
fire gave off in it. This fire is too young for a day-against-day comparison to say
anything, so the hours are shown instead.
Day by day 1 day of record
Sat22 Auglatest
First readings
2 heat readings
Heat from 2:20am to 3:15am
Spread 1.0 miles from the recorded point at its furthest
Burning through the pre-dawn
No containment figure has been reported for it yet. No crew count has been published for it yet. Nothing has looked at it for 172 hours, and the record still lists it as active.
